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Private Companies Are Paying to Keep Yellowstone Clean During Shutdown: They have a profit-based incentive to keep the tourists coming. Nearly three weeks into the government shutdown, some of America’s national parks are starting to get a bit rank. Access is free, since there are no employees to collect the typical $35-per-vehicle entrance fees, but … Read more

by Jesse Colombo Bloomberg just published a piece explaining why the post-Great Recession U.S. auto sales boom is coming to an end: Carmakers have enjoyed an extended run of near-record U.S. sales and fat profits. But this year, it looks as if the party really will start to end. Interest rates are on the rise. The average price of a … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXylS5OvETA The Fed is not behind the curve, they are the curve this is all designed to transfer wealth to the very rich if people can’t see the manipulation by now I doubt if there is hope for them     AC

The people economy is declining very rapidly right now, the MSM is pushing their agenda calling for a recession during the elections. Trump and the patriots already know the plan, they have planned for this. There is a great restructuring coming to the central banks and to the world, phase I has just begun, the … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is getting serious. Sales of new passenger vehicles, as measured by registrations, dropped 5.5% in December from a year earlier in the UK, the second largest auto market in the EU, behind Germany. Sales in the full year of 2018 dropped 6.8%, “reflecting 12 months of turbulence,” and “the ongoing … Read more

In what is sure to lead to another weekend of protests across France (Act Nine of the Yellow Vests movement), French authorities arrested the de-facto leader of the Gilets Jaunes for leading an unauthorized demonstration. According to the Wall Street Journal, Eric Drouet, a truck driver from the suburbs of Paris, was arrested in Paris … Read more

by TFittonJW Judicial Watch’s heavy lifting gets big results: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-5-million-inactive-voters-from-voter-rolls-settle-judicial-watch-federal-lawsuit/ Pumped for 2019 with this victory — will be a precedent nationally!    

by Jesse Colombo Zillow recently published its 2018 housing market report that showed that America’s $33.3 trillion housing market is up by 49% since 2012: The value of the U.S. housing market continues to climb, gaining 6.2 percent in 2018 to reach a total value of $33.3 trillion. That’s up $10.9 billion from the bottom of the … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Chris Martenson returns… If the purpose of a market is price discovery then clearly there’s something major wrong with what passes for markets today. Numerous times throughout the day, questionable series of transactions take place which leads markets heading in a direction that is favorable to the powers that be. When will markets … Read more

from Financial Survival Network John Rubino returns… Like the much vaunted butterfly affect, so too with financial markets and debt. We go merrily along out way thinking everything is fine, only to discover that we were wrong. While we totally mis-called the market from 2011 to late last year, eventually the chickens come home to roost. And … Read more

By Tsvetana Paraskova Elon Musk joined the mayor of Shanghai on Monday for the groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla’s first factory outside the U.S. and in the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market, China. Tesla aims to finish the initial construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory this summer, begin production of Model 3 by the end of this year, and … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn The UK is toast. Emilia Bona reports for the Liverpool Echo, Jan. 6, 2019, that an 80-year-old grandmother was fined for walking her dog near her house in Bootle, a town in Sefton Council, Merseyside, England, because her dog lead was “too long”. Maureen Sanders, 80, was walking her rescue dog Soren around Bootle Cemetery … Read more

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold charges into 2019 on a high note, a silver bull market might be shaping up, and how gold has beaten the market over multiple time periods. Gold charges into 2019 on a high … Read more

From Eurasia Group: The geopolitical environment is the most dangerous it’s been in decades… Markets are increasingly volatile but resilient, taking hits and bouncing back. What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing… yet. Geopolitical cycles are slow-moving. It takes a long time to build a geopolitical order; governments change course through the workings of complex institutions, coalition … Read more

Swift turn: German FM says Europe needs bank transactions system independent from US. https://youtu.be/EI898_WhC9w The European Union should set up a system that would allow Brussels to be independent in its financial operations from Washington, according to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. “It is indispensable that we strengthen European autonomy by creating payment channels that … Read more

by visualcapitalist Over the last five years, markets have pushed concerns about debt under the rug. While economic growth and record-low interest rates have made it easy to service existing government debt, it’s also created a situation where government debt has grown in to over $63 trillion in absolute terms. The global economic tide can change fast, and … Read more

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK2EptzK5Dw DOD ended FY-15 with $93.8 billion in prior-year unobligated balances https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/…